x, 286 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-273)

Introduction: feminism and psychoanalytic theory -- Being and doing: a cross-cultural examination of the socialization of males and females -- Family structure and feminine personality -- Oedipal asymmetries and heterosexual knots -- The fantasy of the perfect mother / with Susan Contratto -- Gender, relation, and difference in psychoanalytic perspective -- Beyond drive theory: object relations and the limits of radical individualism -- Toward a relational individualism: the mediation of self through psychoanalysis -- Feminism, femininty, and Freud -- Psychoanalytic feminism and the psychoanalytic psychology of women -- Seventies questions for thirties women: gender and generation in a study of early women psychoanalysts

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